"K, Jerry Pinto, K Srilata, Gopi Kottoor, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Arnab Jan Deka, Anju Makhija, Robin Ngangom, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Smita Agarwal, Vihang A. Naik and Vivekanand Jha among others. A generation of exiles also sprang from the Indian diaspora. Among these are names like Agha Shahid Ali, Sujata Bhatt, Richard Crasta, Yuyutsu Sharma, Shampa Sinha, Tabish Khair and Vikram Seth. In recent years, English-language writers of Indian origin are being published in the West at an increasing rate. Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Arvind Adiga have won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, with Salman Rushdie going on"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), catapulted him to literary notability. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. ""Midnight's Children"" follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age"
"this trend in 2005 when his novel ""The Sea"" was selected as a surprise winner: Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of ""The Independent"", famously condemned it as ""possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award"" and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory. Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a jury badly split over Ian McEwan's novel ""On Chesil Beach"". The following year it was India's turn again, with Aravind Adiga narrowly defeating Enright's fellow Irishman Sebastian Barry. Historically, the winner of the Man Booker Prize had"
"""If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to open my eyes at all,"" he said. Since 2000, Rushdie has ""lived mostly near Union Square"" in New York City. He is a fan of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th"
"levels of society, and therefore they could experiment more boldly and from a more secure position."" Kamala Markandeya is an early writer in IEL who has often grouped with the trinity of R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. The contributions of Manoj Das and Manohar Malgoankar to growth of IEL largely remains unacknowledged. Among the later writers, the most notable is Salman Rushdie, born in India, now living in the USA. Rushdie with his famous work ""Midnight's Children"" (Booker Prize 1981, Booker of Bookers 1992, and Best of the Bookers 2008) ushered in a new trend of writing."
"of poignancy and considerable sweep""), and in Canadian publications such as the ""Toronto Star"" (""a lush, magical novel""). By the end of the year, it had become one of the five best books of 1997 by ""Time"". Critical response in the United Kingdom was less positive, and the awarding of the Booker Prize caused controversy; Carmen Callil, a 1996 Booker Prize judge, called the novel ""execrable"", and ""The Guardian"" called the context ""profoundly depressing"". In India, the book was criticised especially for its unrestrained description of sexuality by E. K. Nayanar, then Chief Minister of Roy's home state Kerala, where"
"committee to celebrate the 25th and 40th anniversary of the award). The book went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone. In 1984 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by his accusing her of contributing to his father Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect. The case was settled out of court when Salman Rushdie agreed to remove the"
"Mamoni Raisom Goswami Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, is an Assamese editor, poet, professor, scholar and writer. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1983), the Jnanpith Award (2001) and Principal Prince Claus Laureate (2008). A celebrated writer of contemporary Indian literature, many of her works have been translated into English from her native Assamese which include ""The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker"", ""Pages Stained With Blood"" and ""The Man from Chinnamasta"". She was also well known for her attempts"
"its 2009 book awards. The Hindu American Foundation protested this decision, alleging inaccuracies and bias in the book. In February 2014, as part of settlement with plaintiff to a lawsuit brought before an Indian district court, ""The Hindus"" was recalled by Penguin India. Indian authors such as Arundhati Roy, Partha Chatterjee, Jeet Thayil, and Namwar Singh inveighed against the publisher's decision. The book has since been published in India by Speaking Tiger Books. Doniger has written 16 books, translated (primarily from Sanskrit to English) with commentary nine other volumes, has contributed to many edited texts and has written hundreds of"
"served as 27th Chief Justice of India refused the posthumous conferral stating that ""Verma himself would not have accepted"" the honour as he ""never hankered or lobbied for any acclaim, reward or favour."" Kannada novelists K. Shivaram Karanth, who was awarded in 1968, returned his award to protest against the Emergency declared in the country in 1975. Novelist Khushwant Singh, who accepted the award in 1974 in the field of literature and education, returned it in 1984 as a notion of protest against the Operation Blue Star. Singh was later awarded with Padma Vibhushan in 2007. Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, 1986"
"Texts Talks Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is"
"Bhagwati Charan Verma Bhagwati Charan Verma (30 August 1903 – 5 October 1981) was one of the leading writers in Hindi. He wrote many novels, his best work was ""Chitralekha"" (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films, 1941 and 1964. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his epic five-part novel, ""Bhoole Bisre Chitra"" in 1961 and Padma Bhushan in 1971. He was also nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978. Verma was born on 30 August 1903 in a kayastha family , Safipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he received his early education. He also spent some years living"
"The Second Lady The Second Lady is a political thriller by Irving Wallace. Commercial Reception The Second Lady was a New York Times bestseller; it was on the list for nine weeks, peaking at #8.[1] Film Adaptation The novel was adapted into a Hindi feature film Sharara (film) (1984) starring Hema Malini .[2] References 1. ^ ""Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1980"" . Hawes.com . Retrieved February 1, 2017. 2. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/2000/07/28/stories/09280225.htm External links ISBNDB Link This article about a thriller novel of the 1980s is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it ."
"made into a movie of the same name twice. The adaptation directed by Manilal Joshi in 1924 was very controversial in its day: Mahatma Gandhi criticised it for excessive sex and violence. The second version was by Sohrab Modi in 1943. His works are as following: Novels Drama Non-fiction Munshi was portrayed by K. K. Raina in the Shyam Benegal's mini-series ""Samvidhaan"". Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (30 December 1887 – 8 February 1971), popularly known as K. M. Munshi, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later"
"the Booker Prize caused controversy; Carmen Callil, a 1996 Booker Prize judge, called the novel ""execrable"", and ""The Guardian"" described the contest as ""profoundly depressing"". In India, the book was criticised especially for its unrestrained description of sexuality by E. K. Nayanar, then Chief Minister of Roy's home state Kerala, where she had to answer charges of obscenity. The band Darlingside credits the novel as the inspiration for their song ""The God of Loss."" The God of Small Things The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood"
"to utilise more internationally recognisable vocabulary then does colloquial Indian English, in the same way that American English literature does so as compared to American slang. India's only Nobel laureate in literature was the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote some of his work originally in English, and did some of his own English translations from Bengali. India's best selling English-language novelists of all-time are the contemporary writers like Chetan Bhagat, Manjiri Prabhu and Ashok Banker. More recent major writers in English who are either Indian or of Indian origin and derive much inspiration from Indian themes are R. K."
"was an account of his childhood in the poverty-ridden Dongri area of Mumbai. His latest novel, ""Sufi"", describes the parallel lives of two friends: the author himself and a man called Iqbal Rupani, who rose to become the kingpin of the Mumbai underworld in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1975, his fictional version based on the ""Devil's Bible"", entitled ""The Black Book"", created a nationwide controversy. Even amidst critical acclaim, it was translated into seven languages and voted Book of the Year in Kannada. He earned the nickname the ""Salman Rushdie of India"" after his ""Black Book"" was published. He"
"prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is ethnically Indian but was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.) The five other authors on the shortlist included one other Indian writer (Amitav Ghosh) and another first-time writer (Steve Toltz). The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. Adiga explained that ""criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens of the 19th century helped England and France become better societies"". Shortly after he won the prize, it was"
"New books such as Vine Deloria, Jr.'s ""Custer Died for Your Sins"" (1969) and the classic ""Black Elk Speaks"" (1961), reprinted from the 1930s, reached millions of readers inside and outside Indian communities. A wide variety of Indian writers, historians, and essayists gained publication following these successes and new authors were widely read. N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for one of his novels and Leslie Silko received acclaim. Fiction and nonfiction works about Indian life and lore have continued to attract a large audience. Authors such as Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris have earned continued recognition. Since the"
"Manu Bhandari Mannu Bhandari (born 3 April 1931) is an Indian author, whose work dates up to late 1950s - early 1960s. She is most known for her two Hindi novels, ""Aapka Banti"" and ""Mahabhoj"". She is often credited as one of the pioneers of the Nayi Kahaani Movement, a Hindi literary movement initiated by authors including Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar etc. Starting in the 1950s, a newly independent India was going through societal transformations like urbanization and industrialization . This demanded new debates, new opinions and new points of view, provided by those part of the"
"a man of lower caste - as was the case in the book. In the interview she details that Arundhati declared independence from her mother and both had a strained relationship for that particular period. However, she declared she was proud of Arundhati's accomplishments and did not expect that she would win the Man Booker Prize. Mary Roy Mary Roy is an Indian educator and women's rights activist, known for winning a lawsuit in 1986, against the inheritance legislation of her Keralite Syrian Christian community in the Supreme Court. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women with their"
"with rejection from a publisher who was initially keen and had promised me a huge advance, but who later backtracked, offering instead to publish any other book of mine. But the rest, as they say, is history and ""Chinnamastar Manuhto"" went on to become a runaway bestseller!"" Another major piece of her fiction during the period was ""Jatra"" (""The Journey""), based on the problem of militancy/secessionism that has affected almost the entire North-East India frontier ever since Indian independence. Mamoni Raisom Goswami died at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital on 29 November 2011. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1982)."
"Malgonkar's ""A Bend in the Ganges"" (1965), Chaman Nahal's ""AZADI"" (1975) originally written in English and winner of the Sahitya Akedemi Award in India (1977), and Bapsi Sidhwa's ""Ice-Candy Man"" (1988), among others. Salman Rushdie's novel ""Midnight's Children"" (1980), which won the Booker Prize and The Best of the Booker, wove its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. ""Freedom at Midnight"" (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. There is a paucity of films related"
"Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ""The God of Small Things"" (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, to Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation manager from Calcutta. When she was two, her parents divorced and she returned to Kerala"
"making Indians use the same entrance to the post office as blacks, and counted it a victory when three doors were introduced: one for Europeans, one for Asiatics and one for Natives. Richard Grenier in his 1983 article, ""The Gandhi Nobody Knows"", which was also the title of the book of the same name and topic, also criticised the film, arguing it misportrayed him as a ""saint"". He also alleged the Indian government admitted to financing about a third of the film's budget. Grenier's book later became an inspiration for G. B. Singh's book """". Parts of the book also"
"of Anglo-Indians in this book has been criticized as being an ""over-the-top caricature"". Dennis Kincaid Dennis Kincaid (16 October 1905 – 10 June 1937) was a civil servant in British India, a novelist and the author of ""Shivaji: The Grand Rebel"", a widely respected account of the life of the sixteenth century self-made Emperor, and ""British social life in India, 1608-1937"", a classic account of the British in colonial India. Dennis Charles Alexander Kincaid was born on 16 October 1905, the elder son of Charles Augustus Kincaid. His father was a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, and was"
"Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred"
"produced an analysis of the dispute. James Laine James W. Laine is an American academic and writer notable for his controversial book on the 17th-century Indian king, Shivaji titled, ""Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India"". James Laine is the Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies and the chair of the Religious Studies department at Macalester College in Minnesota, United States. He holds a BA (1974) from Texas Tech University, an MTS (1977), and a doctorate in Theology (1984) from Harvard University. The publication of Laine's book, ""Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India"", was followed by heavy criticism and the"
"Nirad C. Chaudhuri Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, CBE (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian English-language writer. Chaudhuri authored numerous works in English and Bengali. His oeuvre provides a magisterial appraisal of the histories and cultures of India, especially in the context of British colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chaudhuri is best known for ""The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian"", published in 1951. Over the course of his literary career, he received numerous accolades for his writing. In 1966, ""The Continent of Circe"" was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, making Chaudhuri the first and only"
"he referenced everything from mythology to ""one-liners invoking recent popular culture"". The novel provoked great controversy in the Muslim community for what some Muslims believed were blasphemous references. They accused him of misusing freedom of speech. Pakistan banned the book in November 1988. On 12 February 1989, a 10,000-strong protest against Rushdie and the book took place in Islamabad, Pakistan. Six protesters were killed in an attack on the American Cultural Center, and an American Express office was ransacked. As the controversy spread, the importing of the book was banned in India and it was burned in demonstrations in the"
"to one observer, ""almost all the British book reviewers"" were unaware of the book's connection to Islam because Rushdie has used the name Mahound instead of Muhammad for his chapter on Islam. In Islamic communities, the novel became instantly controversial, because of what some Muslims considered blasphemous references. Rushdie was accused of misusing freedom of speech. By October 1988, letters and phone calls arrived at Viking Penguin from Muslims, angry with the book and demanding that it be withdrawn. Before the end of the month, the import of the book was banned in India, although possession of the book is"
"John William Graham, believed that Gandhi was a subversive and that the Indians were unprepared for self-government. At the Quaker yearly meeting in 1930 the Nobel prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore attacked British rule in India. The Quakers were disturbed by the address and John Graham was particularly outraged. Afterwards it was agreed that a representative would be sent to India to attempt a reconciliation between the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, and Gandhi. This task was assigned to Horace Alexander, who first met Gandhi in March 1928. He made it possible for Gandhi to attend the 1931 round-table conference in London. After"